KEEPING INNOVATION AT THE FOREFRONT

35 R&D Experts

6 Locations

2,000m² Lab area

Kelvion’s comprehensive research and development facilities enable us not only to validate the performance of our products, but also to optimize customized solutions directly for your application.

Our extensive, decades-long, experience of working as a nominated technical partner with end users, technology start-ups, universities and established engineering organizations has given us a diverse knowledge base. This enables us to find a solution to meet the most challenging cooling and heat transfer requirements. Continuously researching heat exchanger optimization is critical to achieving our innovation goals and understanding our application is pivotal to this success. Our laboratory facilities across Europe can test air coolers with a thermal balance up to a nominal maximum capacity of 600kW (from 100W), and dry air coolers/ ambient rejecters up to a 1.4MW.

A calibrated calorimeter chamber capable of holding units with dimensions of up to 12 m long, 4 m high and 3 m wide, allows for the largest of heat exchangers to be tested.

The in-house wind tunnels can test air volumes up to 50,000 m3/hour and higher air volumes can be calculated from lower fan speed testing. Synthetic refrigerants can be tested up to a nominal capacity of 600kW and CO2 systems can be tested up to 150 kW; a range of other working fluid (synthetic and natural) can also be tested at various conditions and capacities. With a range of facilities available, we will try and find rapid testing solutions to meet requirements.

Component analysis using the x-ray micro-tomography ensures the quality of fin press and joint integrity, and is also available to validate contractor joints or other component analysis on request.

Resident CFD and FEA can be used for a range of investigations, which can also be validated against physical simulations of most scenarios in the laboratory.

We take great pride in offering a high quality, robust, efficient and reliable solution specific to application environments and the laboratory is there to help facilitate innovation and remove the risk from application critical environments.